Synonyms

1. culprit

Sentence Examples

1. He did not believe a clone could be the perpetrator.
2. For an instant the mother stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down at the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and smiled in her face and then she raised her eyes and countenance toward heaven, as if calling on God to curse the perpetrator of the foul deed.
3. The primary explanation is to be found elsewhere, and specifically in the fact that every terrorist act re-quires the radicalization of its up-until-now unsuspi-cious and beyond-suspicion perpetrator.
4. But in his experience, goodness of heart was often accompanied by ingenuousness, so that darker forces, like the perpetrator, Jake Conley, were swift to exploit such weakness.
5. But, under the real circumstances of the case, if we are to suppose gold the motive of this outrage, we must also imagine the perpetrator so vacillating an idiot as to have abandoned his gold and his motive together.
6. Despite an investigation, no clues to the identity of the perpetrator were ever found, and the case was eventually dropped.
7. It was vital that he narrow the list of suspects, then apprehend the perpetrator before those threats escalated into actuality.
8. But how did the perpetrator get from those paintings to Pedro?
9. Harting as the sole perpetrator of their illegitimate operation.